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JESSIS HIMELWRIGHT. above,
the Sutherlin Business and Professional Women t club for the
title Queen of the Sutherlin Timber days carnival, to be held
July 1-4. Born in Klamath Falls 18 years ago, the BP&W candi
date has lived in Sutherlin fer the last, seven years. She is a re
cent graduate of Sutherlin senior high school and says she is
currently looking for a job. Jessie is one of two Sutherlin can
didates for the royal title. (Master Studio picture).
Plan To Repeal Peddlers' Ordinance
Due For Retail Trades Assn. Debate
Discussion of the proposed
ordinance" will be the principal
Trades association members who
Civic room of Hotel Umpqua.
According to RTA spokesmen,
to thoroughly thresh out the
city council voted June 5 to call for a new ordinance repealing
the existing one. Among merchants, opinion seems divided as to
whether the existing rule should be kept on the books or be
4 replaced.
V Main 'bone of contention, 'according to proponents of 're
peal, is the stipulation requiring businesses located outside
the city limits to pay a $100 license fee if they conduct door-to-door
solicitation within the city. Solicitors living within the
citv pay $1.
Roland West protested the licensing regulation at the city
council meeting, saying his laundry business was no different
from other businesses located outside the city and which pay
no license. City Attorney Paul E. Geddes ruled, however, that
West's business was subject to the licensing fee if his truck
drivers solicit business within the city. West is a former president
of the Retail Trades association.
Tomorrow's moeting is open ts all retail merchants of Rose
burg.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
yHE news last week was full of
I highlights. Here is one of them:
T. V. Soong, brother of Madame
Chiang Kai-shek, has quit the
(Kuomintang (China's Nationalist
'ruling party) rather than come to
Formosa, where his sister and
her husband, the generalissimo,
have pledged themselves to stay
and die( die when the Communists
take over the island that is the last
stand of non-Communist China.)
SOONG is one of the world's
wealthiest men. He is safe in
New York, along with his brother-in-law,
H. H. Kung, another of the
world's wealthiest men. The for
tunes of both were MADE IN
CHINA.
If they had obeyed orders and
had gone to Formosa, they would
have gone thereto die. Death is a
futile gesture. They tell themselves
they can do more for their country
by STAYING ALIVE.
Who are we to criticize? We
don't face death. Till you face the
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Fines, Jail Terms Meted
To Two Drunken Drivers
Mark Clem Hookin, 39. Winston
and Edward Charles Ralls, 40, De
troit, were sentenced on drunk
driving charger in Douglas county
justice courts over the weekend.
Hookin was sentenced by Justice
of the Peace A. J. Geddes in Rose
burz. to serve 30 davs in the county
jail and to pay a fine of $225,
following his arrest by state police
omcers.
Rails was sentenced by Justice
of the Peace Ward C. Watson at
Sutherlin to serve 30 days in the
county jail and fined $200.
Ration Of Fresh Meat
In Britain Reduced
LONDON, June 13. -4JP) Brit
- ain's fresh meat ration will be re
duced 12 percent Sunday. Each
person will be allowed to buy the
equivalent of 18'4 cents worth
weekly. The food ministry said
drought had caused meat ship
ments from Argentina to Fall,
i
ii the candidate sponsored by
repeal of the city "peddlers'
item to come before Retail
meet Wednesday noon in the
the special meeting was called
controversial ordinance. Th
Policeman Freed
Of Manslaughter
ALJANY, Ore., June 13
A manslaughter charge against a
Sweet Home policeman was thrown
out of court here yesterday.
F. A. Cornell, Sweet Home justice
of peace, ruled there was insuf
ficient evidence to warrant prose-
cution of Albert us Born on a charge
of killing Theodore Sylvester,
Lebanon, in a scuffle at Lebanon
last week.
He dismissed the charge, which
District Attorney Melvin Goode
said he filed just to clear the
record.
Seven persons save testimony
including Osborn. They related that
Osborn and another Sweet Home
policeman chased a speeder from
Sweet Home te Lebanon. They
cornered the man there, jumped
out of their car to arrest him.
Sylvester got out of the halted
car, and tried to make off with
the police auto. Osborn said. He
leaped in after Sylvester, pulling
out nis gun, osborn continued. Syl
vester grabbed for it, and in the
scuttle tnree shots were fired
others said. Osborn testified he
never lost possession of the eun
but had no idea how many shots
were urea, one Bullet strucK Syl
vester utally.
Goode added his opinion that
Osborn was justified in resorting
to his gun, since Sylvester was
committing a felony in trying to
taice tne police car.
Ex-Czech Envoy Gets
Permit To Stay In U. S.
WASHINGTON. June 13 &
The United States todav save Via
dimir Houdek, former Czech rep
resentative to the United Nations
permission to remain in this coun
try.
The action was taken on grounds
that Houdek might have to oav
with his life if forced to return to
Communist-run Czechoslovakia
Houdek broke with the Czech
government and resigned his UN
post on May Id.
FLOOD THREAT EBBS
PORTLAND, June 13. (JP) The
Columbia river flood threat
dwindling so fast that the weather
bureau cut its official forecast
today.
Col. E. S. Ellison, head of the
bureau here, said it now was nrob-
able the river would climb so
higher than 23 feet to the Portland -
Vancouver harbor area.
Tne rVeerrher
Mostly cloudy with widely
scattered ihtwiri. Portly
cloudy Wednesday.
Sunset todoy 1:54 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow 5:32 a.m.
Established 1173
Social
George Speaks
In Behalf Of
Senate Bill
Additional Coverage,
Boost In Benefit Levels
Principal Goals Sought
WASHINGTON. June 13 - UP)
Senator George (D-Ga) said today
a more liberal social security pro
gram is needed to protect addi
tional millions ot citizens and give
them reasonable retirement bene
fits. Chairman of the senate finance
committee, he opened debate on a
bill which would add nearly 10,-
000,000 persons to the 35,000,000
now covered by the old-age and
survivors insurance system and
sharply increase benefit payments.
The bill is a revised version ot a
measure passed by the House last
October.
George said that a higher level
of benefits is long overdue. He
noted that the retirement system's
benefit formula has been unchang
ed since 1939 "despite the sharp
increase in prices and wage levels
that have occurred since that
time."
Higher benefits, together with the
proposed expansion of coverage
and easing of eligibility require
ments, will help to lessen the bur
den on the states and the federal
government for old age relief, he
said.
He said the bill would continue
to exclude farmers, and certain
professional groups "because
there has been little indication
that they desire coverage at this
time."
Major Changes Listtd
Here are some of the major
changes the bill would make in the
old-age and survivors insurance
system: -
1. Extend coverage on a com
pulsory-' basis to about -8,300,000
persons and on a voluntary basis
to about 1.6O0.O0O. many oi ine
self-employed and regularly em
ployed farm and domestic work
ers make up the bulk of those to
be brought into the system.
2. increase tne mommy bene
fit payments to the 2,900,000 per
sons currently receiving old-age
and survivors benefits an average
of 85 to 90 percent. The average
benefit for retired workers would
be increased from $26 to more
than $48.
3. Establish a new benefit for
mula for persons retiring in the
future under which benefits would
be approximately double those pay
able under existing law.
4. Make it much easier for older
persons to aualitv for oenems
by reducing the required period oi
covered employment.
5. Retain until 1950 tne present
tax of IV percent each on em
ployer payrolls and employe earn
ings to finance the svstem. Aftei
that the tax rate would rise grad
ually to a top of 3Vi percent
each on the employer nnd employe
The bill also would keep $3,000
as the maximum annual earnings
on which taxes would be collected
and benefits paid.
Under tne house measure, tnis
taxable wage base would be raised
to 53.600. A similar increase is one
of the principal changes which Lu
cas and Myers, both members ot
the finance committee, want to
make in the senate bill.
The effect of such a change
would be to increase the top end
of the benefit scale.
Eastern North Dakota
Raked By Heavy Winds
(By Th Auoclited Pretll
Winds of near tornadic violence
struck in eastern North Dakota
last night, causing thousands of
dollars damage to buildings, crops
and communication lines. No cas
ualties were reported.
The Midwest wet belt covered
areas in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illi
nois and Michigan. Strong shift
ing winds accompanied the thun
derstorms in some areas. A gust up
to 75 miles an hour was reported
at Madison, Wis. More than two
inches of rain fell at Madison
and LaCrosse, Wis.
Auto Jumps Highway
Near Azalea; Man Hurt
GRANTS PASS, June 13-4Pi
Oscar Odenborg, 34, Southern Pa
cific railroad employee, Ashland,
was brought to Josephine county
general hospital here early Sun
day. He suffered serious lacera
ions of the face when an automo
bile in which he was a passenger
jumped the Pacific highway a mile
north of Azalea. Identity of the
driver was not learned here.
Methodists, Both 'Ys'
Benefit From Estate
SALEM, June 13 I Pi The
First Methodist church, YMCA and
YWCA, all of Salem, were each
given $80,000 from the will of the
late Sarah Elizabeth Carrier of
Salem
Application for distribution of the
1 money was made yesterday in
Marion county circuit court.
Security
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l-INfc itlinoi Tou can pay
your overparking tine witnour
qoinq to court in Medina, O
Mayor John Brown points out
the new penalty box, situated
below the regular parking met
er, where delinquent motorists
can leave fines ranging from 10
cents if paid within one hour
up to ona dollar..
Strike Ties N. Y.
Daily Newspaper
(By th Auoclated Preifl
"Astrike today 'halted publication
of the New York World-Telegram
and Sun, large evening daily news
paper.
The strike against one of New
York's largest evening papers with
a reported circulation of 600,000,
was called by the CIO American
Newspaper guild in a wage dispute.
Nearly 400 editorial and office
employes launched the strike and
set up a picket line which AFL
printers refused to cross. The pa
per missed its first edition and of
ficials said they doubted they could
publish. '
The union has demanded a 10
percent wage increase, with mini
mums to range from $40 a week
for office boys to $120 for news
men with six years experience,
The present top is $110. The World-
Telegram-and Sun offered general
increases of from $2 to $5 weekly
and increases of $1 to $3.50 in mini
mum scales to make the top mini
mum 113.50 weekly.
Other issues were involved, in
cluding shorter work weeks, se
curity. union preference in hiring,
arbitration of staff reductions, night
differentials and holidays.
Death Toll In French
Plane Crash In Doubt
PARIS. June 13 UP) A four-
engined air France plane with 50
persons aboard crashed in the
Persian gulf last night. After 12
hours of rescue operations, five are
known dead, six have been res
cued and the fate of 39 persons
was in doubt.
Three of those who survived
were members of the crew of eight.
The other three were from among
the 42 passengers aboard the Sai-gon-to-Paris
flight.
KERNIN BUILDING This new
built by W. p. Kermn and is
ley junction. Kernin says he
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house the sales and service departments of his heavy sawmill
The new stone structure is being constructed around the old
homed Kernin s well-drilling
ROSEBURG, OREGON TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1950
Expansion
Technical Aid
To Backward
Areas Assured
United Nations Huddle
Nears $20 Million Goal
Despite Soviet's Bolt
LAKE SUCCESS, June 13.-UP)
Despite a Soviet boycott, the
United Nations conference on tech
nical assistance to backward areas
appeared sure today to reach its
goal of $20,000,000.
As the worldwide meeting moved
into its second day, 15 nations
already had pledged $16,000,000 and
the United States was ready to give
another $2,000,000 if the other coun
tries would contribute $2,000,000
more'.
Although most of the large coun
tries already had made their
pledges, U. N. officials said they
expected contributions a from at
least 15 to 20 other countries. Fifty
one nations attended the opening
session of the three-day meeting.
The opening day was marked by
two significant developments apart
from the series of speeches an
nouncing contributions:
1. Russia and eight other Comin-
form countries boycotted the meet
ing in protest against continued
ores ince of Chinese Nationalists
delegates at the U. N. Yugoslavia,
only Communist member present,
tried unsuccessfully to get the con-
terence to invite Ked China.
2. Many delegates to . the con
ference, as well as U. N. Secretary
General Trygve Lie, praised Presi
dent Truman for giving the ex-
Eanded technical program impetus
y announcing his support in the
famous "point four" of his 1949
inaugural address.
In addition to the United States
offer yesterday to contribute $10,
000,000 to $12,500,000, other leading
contributors on tne opening aay
included: --
France $1,200,000. Britain $2,100.-
000, Netherlands $400,000, Belgium
$270,000, Venezuela $40,000, Bolivia
$50,000, Ethiopia $20,000, Norway
$35,000, Brazil $406,000, Pakistan
$140,000, Canada $850,000, Australia
$400,000, Iran $40,000 and Yugo
slavia $50,000.
District Nurses
Will Confer Here
Nurses from Coos Bay, Grants
Pass, Eugene, Douglas county and
probably other localities will be in
Roseburg Wednesday, to attend the
regional conference of Roseburg
district 11 of the Oregon State
Nurses association.
Starting at 10 a.m., sessions will
be held in the morning and after
nocn at the Veterans hospital rec
reation room, and a dinner meet
ing is scheduled at Melody Inn at
Winston at 7:30 p.m.
Nuring economics security will
be the topic for the morning ses
sion from 10 to 11:30. Resuming
at 1 o'clock, the group will hear
reports of the recent convention,
to be followed by a discussion of
new equipment and drugs and new
ideas in medicine and surgery, A
motion picture will be shown in
connection with the session.
Mrs. Virginia Kletzer, special
consultant, will be the guest
speaker at the evening meeting.
Miss Ruth Bloom, head nurse at
the Veterans hospital, is in charge
of arrangements.
CO-OP GRANTED LOAN
WASHINGTON, June 13 UP)
A $660,000 loan for the Umatilla
Electric Cooperative association,
Hermiston, Ore., was approved
yesterday by the Rural Electrifi
cation administration.
Lite-Rock building, valued at
located on rlighway V? about two blocks north of the Ciarden Val
expects the building to be completed in about 60 days and it wil
business. (Paul Jenkins photol
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UNDECORATION DAY Movie
Actor Audit Murphy, most dec
orated American hero of World
War II, has given away his 2
medals to kids aN over the
country. His Congressional
Medal of Honor, the nation's
most prized military award,
went to his nephew, Weldon
Burns, 8, of Dallas, Tex. He
doesn't remember who got most
of the others. "There are too
many guys who should have
gotten medals and never did,"
said Murphy.
Congress Demand
For Information
Meets Refusal
CHICAGO, June 13 UP) Clap.
ence B. Randall, president of In
land Steel company, today refus
ed to supply information asked by
a Congressional committee.
Randall termed "inquisitorial"
a letter from Rep. Buchanan CD
Pa.) asking for what he said was
detailed information on company
activities dealing with public is
sues. Buchanan, as chairman of the
House select committee on lobby
ing activities, had requested In
land, along with 166 large corpora
tions, to detail expenditures over a
three and a-half year period. He
said information sought by Buch
anan includd travel expense, subs
scriptions, contributions, and ad
vertising "dealing with public is
sues which might be the subject
of federal legislative action."
In a letter to Buchanan, Randall
declared :
"By your inquisitorial letter, you
have demanded of the Inland Steel
company a great deal of informa
tion to which you are not entitled
in a free America."
Randall's letter concluded that
"unless our present doubts as to
your authority to ask these ques
tions are satisfactorily cleared, we
shall make no further answer to
your questionnaire."
Salem Doctor Badly
Hurt In Auto Mishap
SALEM, June 13 UP) Dr. C.
A. Downs, 64, prominent Salem
physician, was in critical condition
today with head injuries after an
automobile accident last night.
Returning from a night call, Dr.
Downs collided with a car driven
by Dalton L, Hobbs, 22, who suf
fered minor facial cuts.
approximately $60,000, is being
and logging equipment business
wooden building which formerly
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Senate Votes
Retention Of
Rent Controls
Six Months' Extension
On Local Option Basis
Now Up To House Action
WASHINGTON, June 13 UP)
Swift House passage of legislation
continuing federal rent controls on
a local option basis was predicted
confidently by Democratic lead
era today, after the Senate
rammed through the compromise
measure on a 36-to-28 vote.
The bill, which would keep alive
the last of the major wartime con
trols, on approximately 8,000,000
dwelling units, mostly in big cities.
would work like this:
1. The federal rent control au
thority, due to expire June 30,
would continue for a year. ,
2. But the controls would cease
automatically in six months, on
December 31, in all communities
that before that date did not de
cide affirmatively, through a vote
of the local governing body or a
referendum of the citizens, to con
tinue the rent ceilings on to June
30, 1951.
3. Any community could vote it
self out from under controls any
time Delore December 31. No com
munity could restore controls aft
er they were lifted.
House speaker Rayburn told
President Truman he is confident
the House will pass the bill. The
administration had asked for
straight extension of the present
law. but banking committee Chair
man Spence, a strong administra
tion supporter, said the compro
mise local option bill "in my opin
ion is the best we can get through
the House."
Republican Move Falls
Administration leaders overrode
J Republican opposition yesterday to
press tne measure through the
Senate. On passage there, 30
Democrats were joined by six Re
publicans in support of the bill.
Opposing were 23 Republicans
and five southern Democrats. .
Democratic Senator Maerfuson
of Washington was. the lone Pacific
northwest solon to vote for the
bill. Senators Cain (R-Wash), Cor
don (R-Ore) voted against it. Sen.
Morse (R-Ore) was luted as paired
against it.
The Senate vote came after Sen
ator Cain (R-Wash), who filibus
tered 12 hours against the bill last
week,' gave up his right to another
marathon speecn. Earner tne ben
ate had rejected. 44 to 25. a Re
publican move to send the bill back
to the banking committee.
Overlooked By Censor?
File Name At C. Of C.
City Manager M. W. Slankard
and chamber of commerce Man
ager Harold Hickerson are appeal
ing to an residents ot itoseourg
ana vicinity who have not been
enumerated in the 1950 census to
file their names and addresses at
the chamber of commerce office.
A number of people have re
ported that their neighbors and
acquaintances claim they have not
been contacted by census takers
and to make sure none is over
looked they are asked to file their
names so that those responsible
for the enumeration can be ii-
vised.
As the allocation of certain state
funds is based on the census count.
it is important that all residents be
counted.
Alibi Apparent Plan
Of Wilson Brothers
VANCOUVER, Wash., June 13
(jpiThe Wilson brothers appar
ently will insist in court here that
they were miles away when 18-year-old
Jo Ann Dewey was slain
last Marcn.
So disclosed their attorney, Irv
ing Goodman, as the kidnap-mur-
der trial of the brothers, Utah, 21,
and Turman. 24. opened in super
ior court yesterday. Attorneys still
were trying today to complete se
lection of a jury.
The brothers long nave insisted
they were arrested at Sacramento
and accused of the crime here only
because of the many arrests in
their past.
East German Policemen
Flee To West Berlin
BERLIN, June 13 UP) Four
east German people's policemen
fled today to west Berlin. One
fought off an attempt to drag him
back at pistol point.
In the past month 42 have de
serted the eastern force, described
by the allies as a secret Russian-trained
army, and won politi
cal asylum here.
One of today's fugitives had
reached tho American sector house
of his bride when a pursuing de
tachment of eastern police over
took him, The girl's cries for
help caused neighbors to call a
western police patrol car and the
eastern detachment ran off across
the nearby Soviet boundary. 'V
Pennsylvania
Governor Acts
To Guard Loads
Four Pickets Arrested; .
Washington Situation
Remains In Deadlock
PITTSBURGH, June 13. UP)
State police patrols rolled across a
seven-county milk strike area to
day in western Pennsylvania. Four
pickets were arrested on charges
of violating a court order.
Charges of dumping milk truck
loads brought orders from Penn
sylvania Governor James H. Duff
to state police to guard against
violence on the state's highways.
State police Captain Andrew J.
Hudock said at Greensburg, West
moreland county, his troopers ar
rested four men he said had block
ed a highway with an automobile
and picket signs.
Captain Hudock said the blocked
road led to Bergman's dairy at
Derry in southwestern rennsyl- .
vann.
The four men are charged with
violating a preliminary injunction '
granted by the Westmoreland
county court. The order forbids
interference with dairy operations
or truck movements.
The governor s statement fol
lowed reports of three earlier in-
cidents in which milk strike pickets
dumped loads of milk and threat
ened drivers.
Likened Te Bandits
The five-day old walkout of 2.300
members of the AFL dairy workers
union against 68 milk dealers in
the area surrounding Pittsburgh
shows no sign of heading for a
settlement soon. 1
Gov. Duff declared in a state
ment:
These were acts of criminals.
They were as criminal as the acts
of bandits and will be treated as
such."
Meanwhile, dairy representatives
in Washington promised to coma
up with a proposal for ending the
three-day-old milk strike in the
nation's capital.
An li-nour union-management
meeting broke up last midnight
with ao action taken on a union
compromise suggestion.
me urn? uairivB supplying musi
of Washington's milk have been
closed by the walkout since noon
Saturday. The striking AFL union
members are seeking a five-day
40-hour week with the same pay
ther now set for a six-day 48-hour
week. The companies' offer did not
meet tne union demands.
Hospitals and other emergency
centers have fceen eupplien eriUs
milk during the strike but many
homes and eating places, including
the House and Senate restaurants,
have run out of milk.
The milk strike in Pennsylvania
has even produced milkleggera.
Three Pittsburgh men drew $2S
fines for attempting to sell bootleg .
milk for 35 cents a quart IS cents
over the price fixed by law. The
trio agreed to turn 140 cases of
milk over to some worthy institu
tion. .
Catholic Teacher Of
Portland Thutjt' Victim
OAKLAND. Calif.. June U.-UF)
Brother Austin, 39, of the Cath
olic teaching order of Christian
urotners, at roruano, ore., was
beaten to the street and robbed
here shortly after midnight.
Brother Austin, who was Paul J.
Guenther before he entered the
religious order, had just arrived by
train from Portland, enroute to
visit relatives in Wooster, Ohio.
As he walked to his hotel an auto
mobile carrying two men drew to
the curb.
One man asked "you got a
match?" Brother Austin said "no."
Both men leaped out, beat the
teacher to the sidewalk, took his
wallet containing $65 and a Port
land university check for $87, and
his two suitcasea of clothing.
Brother Austin was treated at
Providence hospital for cuts and
bruises.
Rail Car Shortage
Begun-Ellsworth
WASHINGTON, June 13. UP)
Rep. Ellsworth (R-Ore) said today
the "annual" shortage of railroad
cars in Oregon has started earlier
th o usual.
- Lumber is the principal com
modity now affected, he aaid, add
ing that unless the situation im
proves soon employment in lumber
and logging industries will be re
duced. "Ordinarily," Ellsworth told a
reporter, "there is a seasonal
shortage of cars which occurs in
the fall when grain must be moved.
Usual!, the condition, though seri
ous and costly, does not last more
than a couple of months. But this
year is different.
"The car shortage in Oregon
began to be felt in May and ahows
no signs of diminishing as the peak
grain loading weeks approach.
"I have spent considerable time
discussing the problem with of
ficials of the Interstate Commerce
commission here.
"They state frankly that they
cannot figure out a solution that
will give any immediate relief.
Cars cannot be produced by pass-
tng
law or issuing an order."
Levity Fact R.
ant
By L. F Reltensteln
Deoth and taxes are certain,
'tis said. Equally so is th an
nual thortoo of Southern Pa
cific freight ear.